Summer Tokyo 2021 Day 8 Thread

[MJG14]

Track graphics look fantastic! Great for a major event like this.

 

[drd23]

So swimming finals are early in the day for American tv but not the athletics? I would have thought they'd be more interested in the athletics? Obviously not.

Jamaicans and Kenyans aren't Americans

 

[rocker_oz33]

Light show pretty good .

 

[troybe]

Jamaica trifecta here’s hoping


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[FRUMPY]

Jamaicans and Kenyans aren't Americans

America would win more gold in athletics than swimming?

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[samFFC]

Jamaica wow!

 

[FRUMPY]

The two runners up not so happy

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[rocker_oz33]

Fisher price looks not happy Jan.

No love between the 3 Jams.

 

[Royces Hart]

This is the first time I’ve missed the crowds

 

[norway blue]

That was cold but brutal pure level running .


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[drd23]

This is the first time I’ve missed the crowds

The 100m without the roar of the crowd and then the really long victory lap just isn't the same

 

[Acinath]

Not a lot of love shown by the other two Jamaicans

 

[samFFC]

5th set in Japan/S Korea volleyball

 

[Satan]

Spoiler alert , Jamaica trifecta 100m w

 

[RobbyRoy]

The Fraser-Pryce story would have been massive, but Thompson absolutely cruised in that semi. Looked prime to turn it on and that's what she did.

 

[pepsi]

This is the first time I’ve missed the crowds

Yep I had a feeling that no crowds would impact the experience of the athletics. It just feels very different. An Olympic stadium on finals nights feels euphoric with crowds.

Without the crowd it lacks a big something. The athletes have been outstanding though.

 

[JackNah_8]

Fraser-Pryce was disappointed.

 

[Donakebab]

America would win more gold in athletics than swimming?

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Nowhere near as many.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Fraser-Pryce was disappointed.

Yep.

Got an silver medal.

And ... .

 

[marshdogg]

bruce goes bang!

 

[FRUMPY]

Yep I had a feeling that no crowds would impact the experience of the athletics. It just feels very different. An Olympic stadium on finals nights feels euphoric with crowds.

Without the crowd it lacks a big something. The athletes have been outstanding though.

Long jump etc when they get the crowds to clap.....

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[FRUMPY]

Nowhere near as many.

Really? They used to dominate the running.

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[noffle]

How did Thompson-Herah know that she had won on the finish line? Didn't see her look over her shoulder or anything so was ballsy to raise the arm early

 

[pepsi]

Long jump etc when they get the crowds to clap.....

I've been to athletics finals at the OG and the feeling is electric. It's like no other sporting event I've been to.

 

[drd23]

America would win more gold in athletics than swimming?

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Rio 2016:
Athletics = 13G , 10S, 9B
Swimming = 16G, 8G, 9B

London 2012:
Athletics = 9G , 12S, 7B
Swimming = 16G, 9G, 6B

Beijing 2008:
Athletics = 7G , 10S, 8B
Swimming = 12G, 9G, 10B

So close, but not quite apparently. The last time the US won as many golds in Athletics as they did Swimming was 1996 - 13 golds each